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Short communication: Trypanosoma cruzi lineage I in endomyocardial biopsy from a north-eastern Brazilian patient at end-stage chronic Chagasic cardiomyopathy.
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH - 1 Mar 2006
Teixeira Marta M G, da Silva Flávia Maia, Marcili Arlei, Umezawa Eufrosina S, Shikanai-Yasuda Maria A, Cunha-Neto Edécio, Kalil Jorge, Stolf Noedir, Stolf Anna Maria S
Abstract excerpt
Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease, is genetically classified into two major evolutionary lineages, T. cruzi I and T. cruzi II. In Southern American Cone countries it is T cruzi II which causes most cases of severe chronic Chagas disease. Contrary to this, we isolated T. cruzi I nested in endomyocardial biopsies of a chronic chagasic patient with end-stage heart failure. Our finding should alert...
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